Theater in London

City Education Department of the Polysaevo Administration
Information-methodical center
Municipal educational institution
Secondary school No. 35
Theater history in the UK
Research project
Polysaevo 2007
City Education Department of the Polysaevo Administration
Information-methodical center
Municipal educational institution
Secondary school No. 35
Theater history in the UK
Daria Putintseva,
The proposed research document contains a description of the history of theater in the UK.
The research project describes the period of English theater from the Middle Ages to the present day, its directions and trends. The play describes the formation and development of the main theatrical trends, the specifics of theatrical struggle at different stages of historical development. Particular attention is paid to the issue of national identity of the English theater.
Theater history in the UK: research /. - Polysaevo: Information and Methodological Center, 2007.
Explanatory note
The purpose of the work: to acquaint with the culture of foreign languages.
Job Objectives : To expand cultural knowledge about the UK.
English theater is an integral part of world culture. The best traditions of national English art have enriched the world theatrical process. The work of British actors, directors and playwrights has won love and recognition beyond the borders of England.
The work of British actors, directors and playwrights has long been recognized and loved in Russia.
The history of theater has long accompanied the history of mankind. From that first page of history, humanity remembers itself, as well as the theater that was its eternal companion.
Do you love theater as much as I do? Our great compatriot Vissarion Belinsky asked his contemporaries a question and became deeply convinced that one cannot fail to love theater.
Do you like theater? More than 20 centuries ago, the great fathers of the ancient theater, Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, could address the same question to the spectators who filled the stone seats of the huge amphitheaters in the open air of Hellas. .
After them, in other centuries, as well as other historical periods in England, Shakespeare and Ben Johnson could have addressed their contemporaries with a similar appeal. And they all asked people of their time, "Do you love theater?" - would have the right to believe in a positive answer.
English theater, literature, music are an integral part of world culture. The best traditions of English culture enriched the world cultural process, gaining love and recognition beyond the borders of England.
The work of English playwrights has long been recognized and loved in Russia. Shakespeare's tragedies starred the greatest actors of Russian theater.
The history of English culture is divided into the following main periods: the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 17th century, the 18th century (the Enlightenment), the 19th century (romanticism, critical realism), and the late 19th century. century - early 20th century (1871-1917) and 20th century, in which two periods are divided: 1917-1945. and 1945 - to the present day.